North Carolina Transportation Company Sentenced For Healthcare Fraud
A Greensboro-based medical transport company was sentenced in federal court for healthcare fraud. Gate City Transportation, Inc. was ordered to pay a $100 fine, a $400 special assessment, and restitution…
Read More »Owner of New York Medical Transportation Companies Pleads Guilty to Healthcare Fraud
Albany, New York — Waqas Nauman, age 37, of Queensbury, New York, pled guilty to defrauding Medicaid. Nauman admitted to fraudulent Medicaid billing practices connected to two medical transportation companies…
Read More »Ex-Nebraska Medicaid administrator sentenced to prison
A former state Medicaid audit administrator who bilked the program and his 85-year-old father of nearly $300,000 got 16 months in federal prison for it Thursday.
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Seventy-three employees of Florida healthcare system fall victim to email phishing attack
As many as 73 employees at NCH Healthcare System fell victim to an email phishing scam.
Read More »Employee’s loss of thumb drive imperils data at Nevada health provider
Renown Health is mailing breach notification letters to some patients after an employee in late June lost a thumb drive holding protected health information.
Read More »CT nursing home patient given 10 times more morphine than prescribed
Seven Connecticut nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health for lapses in care that endangered or hurt residents.
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Fire truck falls through parking deck at Chicago nursing home
A fire truck crashed through a parking deck at the Symphony of South Shore nursing home when the engine and an ambulance responded to an emergency there.
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Illinois Nursing Home Fined $25k after Losing Resident
The Illinois Department of Public Health has fined a Bloomington nursing home $25,000 for letting a 49-year-old woman with dementia wander away from the facility in stockinged feet.
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When can nursing homes make decisions for ‘incapacitated’ residents?
When “Gloria A.” was admitted into a nursing home in late 2012, the 63-year-old truck driver was deemed “incapacitated” by a doctor.
Read More »County Spent $12k so Far on Toilet Paper Caper
A suspected theft of fewer than a dozen rolls of toilet paper from a Wisconsin nursing facility has cost Rock County taxpayers over $12,000 in legal fees as part of…
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